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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamaraPG, 106 mins Daniel Halberstam’s famous phrase “the best and the brightest” could have been specifically coined for Robert McNamara. He knows all about the nightmares of history and the hard choices that come with power. McNamara was one of the men behind the decision to firebomb Japanese cities — and civilians — during the closing stages of the second world war. Later, as the Secretary of Defense to presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, he was a key architect of the Vietnam war. Since then, he has had a change of heart, but anyone expecting the man they called “the human IBM machine” to shed tears and share his guilt had better forget it. McNamara is careful to keep his private feelings and life away from Errol Morris’s camera. The one flaw in this film is